The lives of women and men, the relationships that they establish, and their work have
changed dramatically in the past 50 years, but the dominant theories driving research in …

This article reviews all published studies reporting tests for sex differences in well-being.
Women were found to report greater happiness and life satisfaction than men. This sex …

How can a scientist or policy analyst summarize and evaluate what is already known about
a particular topic? This book offers practical guidance. The amount and diversity of …

This paper provides a systematic assessment of how entrepreneurs react to firm failure. We
use appraisal theory as an overarching theoretical framework and hypothesize that the more …

Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or
unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment …

This paper reviews the relationship between health and inadequate employment, especially
unemployment. Poor physical or mental health can lead, via poor work performance, to job …

The aim of the present study was to test the structure of the work‐family interface measure,
which was intended to take into account both the positive and negative spillover between …

In order to provide a framework for reviewing the voluminous literature on unemployment
and suicidal behaviour, the author distinguishes between two categories of deliberately self …

This book is concerned with the psychological effects of unemployment. In writing it I had two
main aims:(1) to describe theoretical approaches that are relevant to understanding …